Conveyer.



No. 842,900. PATENTEID FEB. 5, 1907. W. H. MORENUS 60F. R. JONES.

OONVEYER. APPLICATION FILED NOV r30, 1906.

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Be it known that we, Wit-MAM H. MORE- NUS and FRANKR. Joni-2s, citizensof tie United States, residing, respectively, at Lake View, Sac county,Iowa, and Harvey, Cook county, Illinois, have invented, certain new anduseful Improvements in Conveyers, of

which the following is a specification.

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Our invention relates to improvements in conveyors, and more especiallyto belt conveyers such as are used for the transportation. and conveyingof dirt, gravel, coal, or the like.

The aim of our invention is to provide an improved method of making anda better con truction of side beam or bar for the frame than hasheretofore been used in this art, and particularly in the art ofagon-loading devices. For this purpose we take an ordinary channelbeamor bar of suitable dimensions and press or bulldoze the same so as tooffset same, the external faces or surfaces of the ilanges, however,being maintained parallel, thereby affording convenient means for theattachment thereto of bearings or journalboxes of shafts rarryingrollers on which the bonveying-belt rests. The object of this peculiarconstruction is to secure a very rigid and firm structure and to use theside members of the frame as shields or protectors to shed or preventthe dirt, con], 01' other conveyed material which falls over the dges ofthe top part of the endless belt from'tumbling' onto the lower partthereof. I

On the accompanying" drawings, which form a part of this'specificatiihi, and in do different views of which like charactersrefer to the same parts through out, we have illustrated a desirable andpreferred embodiment of our invention.

Figure is'a fragmentary side elevation of a portion of a conveyer'embodying our invention which is used in a wagon-loading machine, andFig. 2 is across-section of tiestructure shown in Fig. lion the line 2 2as viewed in the direction indicated by the ar rows.

The longitudinal side beams or bars i0 of this conveyer-frame are madefrom ordinary channel-beams by' pressing: or bnlldozing the-Specificatidn of Letters Patent: I

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hcv. ever, of the top and bottom flanges being maintained parallel. In-Fig. 1 .ue have be readily understood that the transporting i orconveying belt 11 is of the endlessltype, passing over a suitable numberof. rollers 1-2 I Y j shou n only a part of a conveyer; but ituill l andaroundan endroller '13 at each end of,

i the conveyor. The shafts of rollers12 are J rotatably mounted insuitable bearingsv 14, bolted or otherwise conveniently secured to 'thetop flanges .of the side beams 10; It 5 should be noted that the width.of belt 11 is, i such that it overlies these hearings or jour-'rial-boxes 14 and the top flanges of beams 10, while the underportion ofthe belt or that part 'wlziclrtravels beneath the rollers extends belowthe bent u ebs of the side beams, all as is clearly show 11 in Fig. 2.It w ill thus be apparent that any dirt orother conveyed material on thetop face of the upper part of the endless belt 11 which drops off of thesidesof the-belt w ill neither fall -upon the bearings nor upon the lower portion of the 5 belt, since thebent vv ebs of beams 10 act asshields or aprons to deflect the falling dirt. It is perfectly obviousthat'if the dirt w ere allowed to fall upon the lost er art of belt 11it (would we se'annoyance an trouble by atatemp'tingr t0 pass betweenthe belt and the end roller L3. The side bars or beams of the ablenumber of angle-bars 15, depressed at their central portion, 'asillustrated in Fig. 2. The horizontal flanges of these cross-tie barsare bolted to the top flanges of the channel side beam, as indicated at16, the bars, howextent, as indicated, the ends being riveted or boltedat 17 to properly-bent angle-barsf 18, which at their lower ends areriveted to the vertical portions of the webs of beams 10 at 19 and attleir upper inwardly-oflset ends to longitudinal side boards 20.

i A conveyer of the type illustrated is used by us in awaQon-loadingdevice which is drawn forwardly either by draft-animals ora traction-engine and is equipped with a plow which throws the dirt ontothe traveling 1 inclined belt 11. This belt carries the dirt up theincline above the Wagon to be loaded, and as it turns around the upperpulley or frame are tied together crosswise by a suit cvcr, projectingbeyond th ese flanges to some same so as to oifset inwardly thenpperp'or- I roller 13 (not shown) it delivrsthe, dirt or IOf tion or half ofthe beam, tine ext rnal faces,

I drops the same-into the wagon-body, the

belt returning. between the side frame-beanie 10. Inasmuch as there is apossibility of theupper end of this conveyer being struck either by theWagons which carry away the dirt or coming inviolent contact with a treeor other stationary object as the wagon-' loader advances, it .isnecessary to make the frame of this conveyer unusually strong, and

' for that reason it is desirable to make the have discovered that thepeculiar shape-of side beams of the frame in one piece.

beam desired can be produced from an ordinary channel-beam by pressingor. bulldozing, and since these c.-1annel-bea1ns in their new form areunitary structures they possess the adequate strength necessary towithstand the rough usage to which machines of this character aresubjected.

" We have not gone into the details of our wagon-loader, since ourinvention is limited to the conveying parts of the same, and moreparticularly to the method of producing the side members of the frame toform beams or bars of the shape shown and described.

1. A conveyerrframe having va channel side. member approximatelyone-half of whose web isoffset, the exterior surfaces of 'the' channelsflanges being parallel, substantially-as described.

2. oonveyer-frarne having a .ehannei side member, the upperlongitudinal'jpart of 'which\ is inwardly ofiset, the exterior surfacesof the channels flanges being parallel,

substantially as described.

. 3. In a conveyer, the combination of a frame; the side members ofwhich are channels, the upper parts of which are inwardly offset and theflanges of whic project out- Wardly with their exterior su ces parallel,

suitably-mounted rollers, and an endless,

Witnessesto the signature of William H. Morenus:

E. P. HARTMAN, W. J. WESTROMQ Witnesses to the signature of Frank "R.Jones:

' JNOLESEAR'IGHT,

W. C. HILL.

